A batallas de amor campo de pluma.
(Góngora.)
De la douceur, de la douceur, de la douceur !
Calme un peu ces transports fébriles, ma charmante.
Même au fort du déduit parfois, vois-tu, l'amante
Doit avoir l'abandon paisible de la sœur.
Sois langoureuse, fais ta caresse endormante,
Bien égaux tes soupirs et ton regard berceur.
Va, l'étreinte jalouse et le spasme obsesseur
Ne valent pas un long baiser, même qui mente !
Mais dans ton cher cœur d'or, me dis-tu, mon enfant,
La fauve passion va sonnant l'olifant !...
Laisse-la trompetter à son aise, la gueuse !
Mets ton front sur mon front et ta main dans ma main,
Et fais-moi des serments que tu rompras demain,
Et pleurons jusqu'au jour, ô petite fougueuse !
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Confirmed with Paul Verlaine, Poëmes saturniens, Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1866, pages 21-22.
Text Authorship:
- by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Lassitude", appears in Poèmes saturniens, in 1. Melancholia, no. 5, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Bernard Foccroulle (b. 1953), "De la douceur..." [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Otlet , "Lassitude", published 1935 [ voice and piano ], from Melancholia, no. 4, Bosworth et Cie [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcel Pollet (1883 - 1961), "Lassitude", 1907 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Bergen Weeks Applegate) , "Lassitude", appears in Poems Saturnine, in 1. Melancholia, no. 5
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Word count: 121
A batallas de amor campo de pluma.
(Góngora.)
O the sweetness, O the sweetness, O the sweetness!
Calm your fevered transports for a while, my charming!
Be like a sister, sometimes, peacefully warming,
And soothing for one fleeting hour love's wild excess.
Be languorous, making the drowsy caresses;
All equal your sighs and your glances obsession.
Go, the jealous embrace and pang of possession
Are not worth the price of the long lying kiss.
But in your dear heart of gold, you tell me, my child.
The false passion goes sounding her clarion wild.
Let her sound at her ease, hussy delirious.
Put your forehead on my forehead, your hand in mine,
And make me the oaths you will break, oh, so fine.
And weep till the dawn, O little imperious!
Confirmed with Bergen Applegate, Paul Verlaine: His Absinthe-Tinted Song, Chicago, Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, 1916, page 47.
Text Authorship:
- by Bergen Weeks Applegate (b. 1865), "Lassitude", appears in Poems Saturnine, in 1. Melancholia, no. 5 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Lassitude", appears in Poèmes saturniens, in 1. Melancholia, no. 5, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this page: Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2022-03-09
Line count: 16
Word count: 132